For once, I have decided to
build a pure straight from the box kit. Indeed I did suffer some issues due to... not enough patience, the worst plastic modeler
fault.
Of course, a MiG 21 has to be aluminium with red stars, no discussion on this point :-) The difficulty here is to obtain a realistic aluminium.
Picture 01: I just used the 2 dashboard to make a more realistic one
Picture 02: all air intakes have been hollowed
Picture 03: unfortunately, I did first painted the kit in black, then in Alclad. I did not wait enough
Picture 04: So I was obliged to remove all paint and start again
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Picture 05: The kit painted in aluminium, magnesium and a mixture of magnesium and burned iron. the
contrast is too pronounced
Picture 06: So I did again spray some aluminium to soften this
Picture 07: First a dark juice
Picture 08: then pastel powder
Picture 09: last problem, after all this, some vapors inside the cockpit, so I had to unglue it an rework on it.
Due to all these issues, there were some little faults, but the result does please me.